C-TRAN offering free service, extended hours this New Year’s Eve

C-TRAN is offering free service across its entire system this New Year’s Eve to help start 2025 safely.

All C-TRAN routes will be free starting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 31, and continuing until the end of service. Several routes will also be extended into the early hours of Wednesday, Jan. 1. Routes 34, 48, 60, 65, 71, 80, The Vine on Fourth Plain and The Vine on Mill Plain will run until about 2 a.m. or later on Jan. 1. Full New Year’s Eve schedules are available online at c-tran.com/newyears.

C-TRAN urges anyone traveling to a New Year’s Eve celebration to be safe, plan ahead and make transit part of their evening instead of getting behind the wheel. Impaired driving contributes to thousands of deaths in the United States every year, and many of those occur during the holiday season and on New Year’s Eve. C-TRAN hopes local residents will consider using public transit even if they are not staying out until midnight.

Celebrating in Portland? TriMet and the Portland Streetcar also will provide free service after 8 p.m. on New Year’s Eve and most MAX lines will operate on extended hours.

C-TRAN is proud to again partner with sponsors People’s Community Credit Union, the Port of Vancouver, ilani and the Washington State Department of Transportation to offer free New Year’s Eve service this year.

For routes without extended hours, buses will operate on regular weekday schedules on Dec. 31. Extended-hour route schedules vary. For more information, use the Transit app to plan a C-TRAN trip and get real-time arrival information, or call C-TRAN’s customer service department at 360-695-0123.